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• How much does it cost to raise a child in the UK?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/08/24/how-much-does-it-cost-to-raise-a-child-in-the-uk/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 24, 2018 The latest report from the Child Poverty |Action group gives the figures for raising a child to age 18, based on what the public thinks is a minimum standard of living.

• Unfiltered News

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/06/unfiltered-news/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 6, 2016 Launched by Jigsaw in April 2016, t his site seeks to expose those news stories which are being under-reported by the media in different areas of the world using Google Newsdata.

• How Facebook news presents different realities

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/27/how-facebook-news-presents-different-realities/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 27, 2016 A new tool created by the Wall Street Journal Blue Feed Red Feed allows users to examine how different news sources cover political topics.  See the Nieman reports.

• Soldier magazine archive online

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/05/02/soldier-magazine-archive-online/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 2, 2025 80-year archive of the British Army’s in-house magazine, Soldier , has been digitised and is now available online for free.

• Historical American Newspapers – a reminder

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/03/historical-american-newspapers-a-reminder/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 3, 2014 The Chronicling America database from the Library of Congress  provides access to more that 8.1 million newspapers 1836-1922.

• Junk News Aggregator

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/09/junk-news-aggregator/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 9, 2018 A new resource which aims to track the spread of junk news on Facebook.

• Onlinecensorship.org

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/04/onlinecensorship-org/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 4, 2015 Onlinecensorship.org Created by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

• Surveillance Industry Index

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/11/29/surveillance-industry-index/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 29, 2013 Privacy International Launches Surveillance Industry Index/Database This database includes information provided by WikiLeaks and Omega Research Foundation.

• Peace Women

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/10/17/peace-women/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 17, 2011 http://www.peacewomen.org/ A project of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) which seeks to promote peace and disarmament.

• American presidency and social media

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/11/16/american-presidency-and-social-media/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 16, 2012   http://techpresident.com/news/23104/help-digital-infrastructure-obama-wins-re-election   TechPresident has a good review of the role of social media in the election.